sanctuary


1. 
i am your world cut sharp in ornamental starlight
drawing on the disillusion of unseeing eyes
touch sky struck red with daughters of a serpent beauty
where iron-banded candles touch the haggard moon

you are a child dancer
i see you hiding in your darkened corner of the earth
you are a wild dancer
i hear your music climbing from the shadowed earth

have you found sanctuary

i am your glory black against the sky of morning
smoke drifts through shattered glass in your cathedral eyes
ashes in the hourglass, blood on the street behind you
dream beside the black rats, wake the night in song

you are a prophet dancer
standing witness to the testament of the ancient earth
you are a lonely dancer
i hear your music climbing from the shadowed earth

have you found sanctuary


2.
would you have shoes made from clouds for your feet
and would you have wings for your hands
would cold winds run swift and free through your hair
and would you walk over the land
if you could lift free from the steel and the dust
suspended in vertigo, the danger of speed
if you could lift wings like a moth to the moon
would you walk over the wide open sea

this is the road hung with cobwebs and thunder
these are the long leagues between
the image of the rainbow, the tasting of flames
and the burning stars that you dreamed
this is the voice of a sparrow in flight
these are the stars that you dream

3.
will you live to touch the sky
to see where all your dreams are gone
so long without your wings my love
can you live free

will you live to touch the sky
to cut free from the dying earth
so long within your secrets child
don't hide away


have you found sanctuary?



(mythical creatures, 1987 or so)